Chuck Berry - Too Much Monkey Business Lyrics

This song is dedicated to the US Congressional intelligence committee 🖕

This guy stole that song from the Yardbirds. No originality.

Is this the Astrogate song with the breaking Houston Astros cheating scandal.

proto rap ? better a mon avis

Happy Birthday !!!

John Lennon sing it great cover

I guess everyone already knows that Bob Dylan was inspired to write Subterranean Homesick Blues based on this song. He liked the meter of it.

I love listening to this song after hanging with my girl she loves chuck berry and cant get enough of him

I come from the days when a dollar gas was a big deal. Nice to know Chuck B came from the same background.

The original rapp artist.

the soundtrack our lives... rock n roll yeah

ROCK N ROLL AWESOME

<3 Gotta love Chuck Berry! <3 Awesome talent! :)

鶴光のオールナイトニッポンの「この歌はこんな風に聞こえる」のテーマソングになりました！ありがとう！Thank you very much！

The Lyrics, The Licks, The Larynx, The Leer, The Lust, The Lurve, The Larfs, The Legs - The LEGEND!!

Aces, my friend....all aces!!!!!!

@OthaBrotha1 Thanx Bro - add, The Lurve!

This guy knows what’s going on

Early rap.

Genius lyricist

Rip Chuck 2019 😔😔

https://youtu.be/5ovc4n38-Rc
Reverse Audio Lyrical Version

Que grande el chuck!

before elvis we had chuck berry

better than elvis preserly

False but respected opinion

A white guy could't get away writing a song like this, he'd be called racist, that's the state of the nation.

Elvis Presley's Version is a little better

Hail hail rock and roll

Didn't know this song was his! The only version I was aware of was the Yardbirds version.

鶴光のオールナイトニッポン
この歌はこんな風に聞こえる

dedicated to talahasse mayor

I figured i should relisten to this classic due to the current political climate in Florida. Apparently the phrase is now racist.

I thought about this song immediately, since this is one my favorite songs.

Thank God for Chuck Berry.

Rock n roll at it's best. Patriot Florida's next Governor Ron DeSantis should do parody ad against socialist adversary that faints disdain and false racism claim. Lifelong Republican and patriot Chuck Berry is probably watching down and giving DeSantis his blessing.

The real king and god of rock n roll
Elvis was just a model guy dressed in leather

I love the part where he goes, 'Ahhhhh.' :D

Chuck wrote it, so it is a great song. He also does a fine job performing it here, but if you want to hear the all-time greatest, never to be equalled version, listen to the one by Tom Rush. It is on youtube, but like a lot of youtube music it doesn't come close to the original, on vinyl.

runnin' to-and-fro, hard workin' at the mill
Never fail in the mail, yeah, come a rotten bill
Too much monkey business, too much monkey business
Too much monkey business for me to be involved in
Salesman talkin' to me, tryin' to run me up a creek
Says you can buy now, gone try, you can pay me next week, ahh
Too much monkey business, too much monkey business
Too much monkey business for me to be involved in
Blonde haired good looks, tryin' to get me hooked
Want me to marry, get a home, settle down, write a book
Too much monkey business, too much monkey business
Too much monkey business for me to be involved in
Same thing every day, gettin' up, goin' to school
No need for me to complain, my objection's overruled, ahh
Too much monkey business, too much monkey business
Too much monkey business for me to be involved in
Take home, something wrong, dime gone, will hold
Order suit, hoppered up for telling me a tale, ahh
Too much monkey business, too much monkey business
Too much monkey business for me to be involved in
Been to yokohama, been fightin' in the war
Army bunk, army chow, army clothes, army car, aah
Too much monkey business, too much monkey business
Too much monkey business for me to be involved in
Workin' in the fillin' station, too many tasks
Wipe the windows, check the tires, check the oil, dollar gas
too much monkey business, too much monkey business
don't want your botheration, get away, leave me

too much monkey business for meeeeeee.

that's real Rock n roll

アぁぁ！🔥きた～！！(　｀□´)

笑福亭鶴光「この歌はこんな風に聞こえる」 2:06 「オメボンオメチャンオ●コオ●コハァ～」

I can relate to this song.

His phrasing and verbal gymnastics was unmatched by any of his peers. Chuck was the first poet of this art form.

C Synch Best said ever

Actually, IMHO, the BEST rock lyricist bar none. ie "She moves around like a wayward summer breeze . . . " etc. What a vocabulary, what imagination! No one consistently captured the zeitgeist -- the essence, flavor, and the joyous excitement of the post-war 1950s and rock & roll's early years in a new land of plenty -- better than did Chuck Berry. "Did I miss the skyscrapers did I miss the long freeways . . ?" And we miss Chuck Berry.

110% pure rock and roll 🎸!!!

Correct! No more New REAL rock and roll, Buck cherry, wonder how they came up with that name , ?????

I think Chuck wrote this after listening to Hank Williams "Mind Your Own Business".

I’d love to learn how to play this on the guitar.. and I wouldn’t mind having this on a 45 vinyl..

that johnny johnson on the keyboards, now that cat can do something.

love it

Did Misfits stolen this title?

genau.....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

One of the few pop songs ever to complain about phone service, to the extent of threatening to sue the operator. A genius of
American minutiae long before Jerry Seinfeld.

0:47 REMINDS ME OF;:

get sick get well. Hang around a ink well. Ring bell, hard to tell. If anything is goin' to sell. Try hard, get barred. Get back, write braille. Get jailed, jump bail. Join the army, if you fail. ///

get born, keep warm, Short pants, romance, learn to dance,
Get dressed, get blessed, Try to be a success, Please her, please him, buy gifts, Don’t steal, don’t lift, Twenty years of schoolin’,
And they put you on the day shift, Look out kid, They keep it all hid

Now this would've been a great song for fallout new vegas. I know it's said a lot but I really mean it

A Story of Most Everones Life......But on the Humerous Side...!!!!!!!

omepon omechan omekun omeko

Damn Chuck Berry is the originator of Rock n roll wonderful black man

Little Richard created Rock n Roll. Chuck Berry ascended to become the most prolific emulative example of Rock N Roll.

Now I wanna go quit my job.

Elvis did this song on the movie...Stay away Joe!

all Brit groups....own it to this master....RIP..

Genius !

The Voyager Space Craft which is now heading past Pluto into deep space has a recording of Chuck's Roll Over Beethoven. Some day space aliens will intercept the craft and play the record. Imagine those little green men dancing to his music. RIP Chuck Berry

Chuck we are going to miss you RIP...SORRY I MISEED THE NEW YEAR PARTY AT BBs

THANK U 4 THE FATHER....

this one is stuck in my head forever.......it somehow fits my life approach.....always lookin for as much of "it" as possible...always.....................

*Too Much Junkie Business!*

One of the rock classics, up there with Bohemian Rapsody, Child in time, and Stairway to Heaven.

An American treasure. Never has there ever been so much owed, to one man. LONG LIVE CHUCK BERRY!

I love The Beatles At The BBC version of this.

haha i seen this guys piss and fart on a hooker... lol

haha i seen this guys piss and fart on a hooker... lol

Lost a Legend that inspired many great musicians. Good lyrics also while making a statement.

RIP Chuck Berry

RIP Chuck Berry. Love all his music!

"blond haired good looking trying to get me hooked wants me to marry settle down buy a home write a book" - loved this line so much I used it in one of my own-a homage to a great rock poet

I love that line. Unfortunately its. Blonde half good lookin

R.I.P. Chuck Berry 🎶

O Melhor partiu ontem 18/03/2017* vai deixar muitas saudades!

RIP Chuck !!!!!

R.I.P. chuck...the real king of rock and roll! :(

Both Chuck and Elvis paid tribute to Sister Loretta Tharpe and said she influenced their music. See- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnAQATKRBN0

Don't forget about Lemmy though, he was atleast second to chuck

My all time favorite song of his. Rest In Peace Chuck.

RIP Chuck. This is my fave.

R.I.P. You were the greatest...

Bye Chuck. Without you millions wouldn't have Rock n roll

R.I.P. to a LEGEND!!!!!  I know they have to go sometimes but Chuck Berry????

RIP, Mr. Berry....

RIP Chuck

RIP Grandfather of Rock 'n' Roll.

Rest in peace Chuck Berry. Thanks for teaching the world how to Rock & Roll

What a sound!!!

yehhh, his best stuff, the willie dixon (double bass player) stuff!
great boom-chukka boom-chukka sound!

been listening to Chuck all my life

You go Marvin!

The godfather of rock'n'roll.

This man wrote, sang and related to the kids of the time.

five381 I agree with you but he relates to kids of every generation. The attitude of his music is timeless to anyone of any era that's into what he was putting down.

marvin s: That's true. One thing I've noticed is that these tunes are less requested on radio "oldie" shows than a few years ago and more of the 60's and 70's are. We are still on the fringes on the 50's and kids today hear about it from their parents or grandparents but time moves on, tastes and design  move with it and so do the generations.
Early rock will go the way of the big bands, black slacks, pegged pants and D.A. hair cuts.

Happy 90 th:_))) xxxx

Yeah, the botheration word let alone in a sentance'', "ought to suit' the operator for telling me a tail !!"

Great seminal rock number. Chuck did a lot on his own and for those who followed him.

Out my fucking mind on mushrooms. This song saved my soul

Sounds hilarious,id love to hear the details of how that came about! lol

ACatNamedJoex, that is absolutely awesome!

ACatNamedJoe x the power of music!

Let's spell it out

D O T A 2

Timeless comments on life and the complications from the original king of rock n' roll

+Robert Guatelli right on, i love the gas station bit

+Robert Guatelli The original and only king of rock n' roll has been Elvis Presley. He has done more for rock n' roll than all the other rock n' rollers, white and black, put together. Without Elvis, rock n' roll would have faded away and died out.

elvis presley= justine bieber
both are a fucking joke

yo are justin biever

Little Jimmy Scumbag
Willie McTell,Lonnie Johnson,Leadbelly all had a rock& roll thing,Chuck Berry reinvented and popularised it,then Elvis made it global. American racism against African Americans ensured no black man was gonna be king of anything. Elvis is still a legitimate King too.

I dont want your botheration!!

@jimmy page So you won't answer my question, wow you are rude. You could at least said "I don't know". One day you may want to know something and no one is going to answer you. You reap what you sow.

+jcs7 sorry, i guess he was making the comment that american women are ALl about the money. makes sense to me

@jimmy page That's ok. Thank you. 

jimmy page
“Botheration”!!! 🤷🏻‍♂️

@Rock yah, yah, but really. Hot blonde thats your type? Look out.

Thanks Makumbha Shanti for making me now aware of the similarity of this Chuck Classic and Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues" ! I appreciate that! Both songs are CLASSICS! And thank Goodness both Bob and Chuck are Still
ALIVE! Bless Them!!!!

Bob acknowledged Subterranean is based on this song.